Month: May 2017

Kabul, Afghanistan, May 31 - At least 90 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter during rush hour, in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since 2001. Bloodied corpses

NAIROBI, Kenya May 31 - It’s finally here, the long awaited Standard Gauge Railway passenger train service dubbed Madaraka Express. President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off the maiden trip at the Mombasa Terminus at Miritini on Wednesday at 10am, and boarded

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 31 - Those convicted of a capital offence for vandalising the Standard Gauge Railway will be hanged, President Uhuru Kenyatta warned Wednesday as he launched the passenger train service in Mombasa. He said people must understand the

Reading, United Kingdom, May 31 - British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed she would not join a live television election debate on Wednesday after opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn announced a last-minute decision to attend.May had ruled out any head-to-head

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 31 - The status of the economy may not influence choices voters make for or against a particular candidate going by a new study released by the IPSOS Tuesday. IPSOS Research Analyst Tom Wolf says 76 per cent of 2,026 respondents sampled

Geneva, Switzerland, May 31 - Donald Trump may be lighting up Twitter with strange new words and attacks on allies but in the battle for most attention per tweet the US president is losing. The world leader whose original tweets generate the most retweets

Berlin, Germany, May 31 - A German court on Wednesday backed online giant Facebook in its battle to reject a demand by the parents of a dead teenage girl for access to her account.The 15-year-old was killed by a Berlin underground train in 2012 and her

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 31 - A voter from Murang'a County is in court to stop the re-election of incumbent Governor Mwangi wa Iria over unresolved myriad corruption allegations. In an urgent case filed Wednesday, Jackson Kiroko Ndegwa claims there is real

MANILA, May 31 - Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte angrily hit back Wednesday at Chelsea Clinton for criticising remarks he made about rape, using vulgar language while referring to her father's infidelities as American president. Duterte on Friday told

Washington, United States, May 31 - Not for the first time, a Donald Trump tweet has lit up the internet. But this time, users the world over have been left scratching their heads over "covfefe": a bizarre word apparently created by the president."Despite